Ivan Ridderstedt

Researcher

Presentation

Ivan Ridderstedt is a researcher at the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI), working in the Transport Economics unit. He received his PhD in Economics from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in 2023, with a dissertation on methods for improving cost efficiency in public procurement. His work focuses primarily on regionally procured public transport services and the Swedish Transport Administration’s procurement of design, maintenance, and investment projects. Within this field, he has paid particular attention to bid evaluation methods and to the competition and cost effects associated with contract characteristics and contract size. In addition, he leads analytical work on the Swedish Transport Administration’s information management, cost control, and governance of the agency’s organisational development.